Impact IQImpact IQMarket intelligence for impact investors and entrepreneurs2014-04-09T17:17:19Zhttp://impactiq.org/feed/atom/WordPressDavid Bankhttp://impactiq.org/?p=21002014-04-09T17:17:19Z2014-04-08T22:55:02ZIndia is in the midst of the world’s largest experiment in democratic elections, with more than 800 million people eligible to vote in its current parliamentary elections. Impact investors are monitoring what may be an even more interesting experiment: the efforts by India’s new crop of health care entrepreneurs to sell medical services directly to […]

]]>0Jessica Potheringhttp://impactiq.org/?p=20812014-04-07T13:41:28Z2014-04-06T06:06:55ZThe winning team in a business-school sustainable finance competition summoned a vision of groves of poplar trees on polluted industrial sites, delivering competitive returns to private investors while cleaning up toxics and boosting real estate values. Fresh Coast Capital, from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, will receive $10,000 as the winner of the Morgan […]

]]>0David Bankhttp://impactiq.org/?p=20492014-03-18T23:11:00Z2014-03-18T23:11:00ZWhat’s good for the fish is good for the fishing communities — and for impact investors. That’s the thesis of three new vehicles for investing in sustainable fisheries that will be tested in the Philippines, Chile and Brazil over the next two years and then offered to investors more broadly. Former New York City Mayor […]

]]>0Paul Polak and Mal Warwickhttp://businesssolutiontopoverty.com/http://impactiq.org/?p=20292014-03-05T14:00:50Z2014-03-03T15:21:12ZEconomists have it all wrong. The conventional definition of economic growth—increase in average per capita GDP—is irrelevant to people living in extreme poverty. If you’re one of 400 million people in India earning $400 a year or less and the board chairman of Reliance Industries earns $18 million, the fact that the average per capita […]

]]>0David Bankhttp://impactiq.org/?p=20202014-02-26T15:21:52Z2014-02-26T15:21:52ZLike Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatApp, the announcement that d.light design has closed $11 million in new financing is a signal of Silicon Valley’s increasing interest in technology’s role in meeting the needs of emerging middle-class consumers in the developing world. Investors in d.light, which makes affordable solar lanterns, included Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a […]

]]>1David Bankhttp://impactiq.org/?p=20072014-02-18T04:29:49Z2014-02-14T20:51:23ZFormer New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a big splash in the oceans world recently with a $53 million commitment that put him among the top five funders of ocean restoration and sustainable seafood. No less significantly, the grant also makes Mr. Bloomberg one of the biggest supporters of impact investing. Attracting private capital to […]

]]>0Michael Van Pattenhttp://impactiq.org/?p=19952014-01-29T20:35:41Z2014-01-29T20:27:30ZImpact investing will struggle to gain scale and relevance without both the participation of mainstream capital markets and investment professionals and the expansion into more traditional and non-private financial products. A key step is to increase awareness by educating financial advisors and capital markets intermediaries about the opportunities for their clients in the impact investing […]

]]>0Marco Vangelistihttp://impactiq.org/?p=19862014-02-06T06:09:01Z2013-12-24T12:00:49ZThe Bay Area has a remarkable example of how a new economic development strategy could work. People’s Community Market, the first full service grocery store in West Oakland in almost a decade, will be built in 2014 after the completion of the capital raising campaign currently under way. PCM is raising $1.2 million of equity […]

]]>0Ravi Kuranihttp://impactiq.org/?p=19702013-12-19T00:06:14Z2013-12-19T00:04:04ZWe’ve been measuring and valuing negative externalities for a long time, with governments using taxes to realign incentives and costs. Now it’s time to measure and value positive externalities as well. Charging for negative externalities is sometimes referred to as a “Pigouvian tax.” This tax is placed on the profit-making entities for ‘disrupting’ social values […]